Very cool! more lights than the WOPR and slightly less than the Connection Machine :)
The Stagecoach board seems to be available on gumstix site. Anyone order it yet? -Skip On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:56 AM, ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is our latest minicluster design. > > We used the gumstix stagecoach. > > It's nice, 196 Ovaros in a box. We had a number of failed attempts on > an enclosure design: > http://picasaweb.google.com/rminnich/Strongbox?authkey=Gv1sRgCI6PwZXM57iZ8gE# > > That was my first design, it was really quite compact and fun, and it > was a huge pain to assemble. It hit the basic high points however: 7 > nodes per stagecoach, 7 stagecoaches per shelf, a switch per shelf > that reduced the outgoing enet cables to one. Power was a huge issue; > 5V 80A per shelf, which was not fun. 10 GA wires never are. > > I know at least some people on this list know Mitch Williams. He came > up with this: > http://picasaweb.google.com/rminnich/StrongboxAtSC10?authkey=Gv1sRgCJbWpcfci73HxwE# > It's quite elegant: self-contained shelves, with power supply, > Rigrunner for fuses, > continues the use of an 8-port switch per shelf, so each shelf has one > 120V power cable and one enet cable coming out. > > Plan 9 is in the works. This is a nice test and development platform > for software. We're going to make the design available in a way that > people can easily build their own. > > ron > >
